PSARC/2007/677 Allow ypinit -c to use IP addresses

[Darren J Moffat]

Peter Memishian wrote:
>  > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 01:22:58PM -0500, Peter Memishian wrote:
>  > >                                    Release binding is minor.
>  > 
>  > Why not patch/micro?
> 
> It's conceivable (though unlikely) that there are customer scripts that
> parse the contents of the ypservers file and would choke on IP addresses.

The change only allows for IP addresses in that file (who's format is 
not actually documented and it is usually generated by ypinit).  If 
customers start giving IP addresses to ypinit and they have scripts that 
attempt to parse ypservers directly then they should know they have to 
deal with this.

I think this is acceptable for patch binding.

If however the change was to stop putting names into ypservers even if 
names were passed to ypinit I would say it wasn't suitable for patch 
binding - but that isn't what the proposal says.

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Darren J Moffat